We have received your letter to EA’s shareholder site. In response to your offer to assist in the proposed acquisition of Take-Two, we would strongly prefer that you not get involved in this matter. EA is a strong supporter of creative freedom for game developers. We feel that your past statements – including false claims about content in our games – make any collaboration with you impossible.

GP: Good call by EA. Trying to ignore Thompson in the hope that he will just go away has been a mistake the video game industry has repeated time and again.

UPDATE: GP has received a comment from Thompson:

I've just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That's fine. Then I'll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA's improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct.

The only reason JT bowed out of the Mass Effect "scandal" is because he epends time on gaming websites- hoping to find mentions of himself to masturbate to. He found out the whole thing was stupid before he had time to act (remember, the conservative blogger started it first).

JT will either respond to EA by doing one of the following:

A) Sue, or threaten to sue EA.

B) Issue a statement about this being the single greatest thing that has ever happened in his law career- and it being the final weapon he needs to destory TT/R*/videogames.

C) Go on to personally attack Mariam Sughayer for being part of the homosexual conspiracy and being a drug addict.

There is only one word that accurately and aptly describes this response. That word is one known to us all, but not to the fuddy-duddies like Jack Thompson who do not understand video games and hate them for that fact. That word my friends is...

No, optimists still know they could be wrong and things won't turn out well. Jack is either in denial or completely delusional. Or maybe a little of column A and a lot of column B... A LOT of column B.

Jack: Dear EA,
F-k you, you f--kin' f--k faced mother f--kers! Thompson's gonna talk in the third person while he threatens to sue you for slander!You f--kin' f--kers have no f--kin' clue how badly you have f--ked up now! F--K YOU ALL AT EA, ECA, ESA, TT, AND ALSO ROCKSTAR...cause...you know...games are bad and stuff.MUTHA F--KIN' HOOOOOOOOOAAAAAH!
Truly your's
Jack Thompson >>>end spoof by GRIZZAM 512

Well, I was originally going to simply say "BURN," but at least two other people beat me to the punch... oh, well. I honestly thought EA would simply ignore Thompson, as well. But this is so much more satisfying.

I've said all along that the new bloke in charge of EA has potential, seems his top staff are taking the lead. All EA need to do now to regain my faith is to support the smaller developers and allow the development of more niche games rather than pure mainstream.

Also: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!! The most polite bitchslap I've ever seen. I'm sure the politeness of it will infuriate more than the bitchslap part.

"I’ve just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That’s fine. Then I’ll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. "

LOL. If I take a copy of the Bible, glue pictures of naked women into it and give it children, are the people who published the book guilty of improper collaboration with me? Thompson's claims about the Sims were and are absolute bullshit.

Also, there's no way at all he'll be involved at the shareholders meeting. Even if he attends, what does he expect to accomplish? Whinge at the people? Threaten them?

Even though his threats are empty and he is pretty powerless, the man's zeal is kind of scary.

That is like saying Vivendi Universal collaboration with modders to make improper mods involving Barbie's Horse Adventures... No such collaboration exists, especially when it comes to unrelated individuals modifying games in ways companies didn't intend people to or endorse.

Jack let me put it in a way you would have a better time understanding: someone "modding" gay porn in copies of "Out of Harm's Way" & giving the modified books away be in "improper collaboration" with you?

"I’ve just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That’s fine. Then I’ll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. "

And so begins the temper tantrum.

I'm still seeing him in the animations version of a tantrum.
Angry face.
Fists balled up.
And the legs up, then down, then up, then down...
All with the growly sound bite.

"I’ve just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That’s fine. Then I’ll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct."

.....Mr. Thompson, are you honestly saying that EA, a company that has, over the years, shown that it doesn't really give a flying **** about its own games, paid some people to make their own mods to put on their (and not EA's) fansites?

Wow, uhhh... pardon the bluntness of this, sir, but.... are you REALLY that stupid?

[...] Jack Thompson responded to the rebuttal directly to gamepolitics.com, saying: I’ve just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That’s fine. Then I’ll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. [...]

Everytime he opens his mouth, he seems to think that people won't remember what he has said before. It's almost as if he feels he is some sort of super genius and the rest of us are idiots that will believe everything he says. When we challenge what he is saying, he acts as if we are breaking some sort of rule.When we recall what he has said in the past, he acts as if it isn't allowed. As if life is some big court case and he can say, "Wait a minute, I'm not the one on trial here, let's keep focused on T2, ok?"

Jack, if you lie about a company, if you insult a company, if you make your personal cause the bringing down of the very industry the company represents... don't issue a press release to the company and expect a happy-happy responce.

Yep, its like my friend I talk to on XFire says "never let the truth get in the way of a good lie" or something. Of course, in Jack's case, its bad lies since he always tends to get caught, and punished as these articles prove.

[...] Jack Thompson Fires Back at EA, Claims He Has a Client with a T2 Claim March 06th, 2008 | Category: Gaming News …so by now you’ve read Electronic Arts stinging dismissal of controversial attorney Jack Thompson’s offer to help it acquire Take Two Interactive. We’ve just received from Thompson that copy of his response to EA: I have in the last few days been contacted by a company with whom Take-Two does business. that company is now my client. [...]

@Shoehorn O'PlentyIf I take a copy of the Bible, glue pictures of naked women into it and give it children, are the people who published the book guilty of improper collaboration with me?
Nah, it's more like if you drew hentai pictures on a piece of paper, the company that made the pencil and paper are part of an "improper collaboration", because like most things you can mod, it really is just a pencil and paper.

Well, Jack, need some Cheese with your Whine? Someone who isn't a delusional nut job with a Messiah complex would know that you do not try to court people that you have lied about in the past as allies. It never works.

[...] Everyone’s favorite freedom fighter is back and this time he has high hopes. He wants to be the liason between EA and Take 2. Sort of like how Billion dollar investment mogul Warren Buffet helped the Yankees and Alex Rodriguez reach a deal. Trouble is, EA wants absolutely nothing to do with Jack. Here is what they said: Mr. Thompson, [...]

He should be ignored in a sense that he should be represented as a joke. Because lets face it, no one respects him. Judges, lawyers, game developers, gamers, parents, victims of school shootings, and even the Florida bar doesn't exactly respect him. His court room behavior is absurd at best and instead of upholding the constitution he is riding his own personal vendetta against video games right into a brick wall.

His name is not important, and his actions really aren't either. The man is destined to fail.

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